Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

We have made a clear set of decisions and we intend to follow that through. Greece, on the other hand, faces ten to 15 years of austerity programmes, as Prime Minister Papandreou has outlined for me here. We certainly do not want to see that in our country for our people. We want to follow a growth pattern in which we get the 440,000 who are on the live register back to work and enable them to play their part with dignity and respect for their own localities and for the general economy.

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